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[Announce] Yappari - A WhatsApp Client for the N900 ONLY
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Scorpius
2013-01-15 , 05:06
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It *IS* frustrating and really tiring sometimes.
Also looks like I really "improved" the synchronization and it doesn't lag the phone anymore.
Talking about frustrating things I'll elaborate the previous sentence a little more: I have around 150 contacts. I exported my address book to the scratchbox environment (in the PC, where I develop Yappari) so I have the same contacts in my phone than in the N900 emulator in the PC.
It takes 3 MILLISECONDS to synchronize all my contacts in scratchbox, yes, all 150 contacts.
It takes around 10 SECONDS to synchronize in the phone and that's *IF* the phone survives (after 8 seconds Yappari or the whole phone used to crash).
But now the synchronization takes a couple of seconds longer but it's smoother and in my experience doesn't lag the phone anymore because now I'm giving enough CPU to the rest of the phone. I hope you'll get the same user experience I'm getting in the N900.
Like I said n times before, coding for a phone is totally different than coding for a PC, and usually you have to sacrifice "efficient coding" for something uglier but faster that doesn't bother the user with lags and delays.
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